Global coastal sea levels are on average 1 foot higher than previously assumed, a new report finds, raising alarms the world ...

I didn’t expect the discrepancy to be so immense,” said Katharina Seeger, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of ...

Measurements of coastal sea-level height around the world may be higher than scientists previously thought, according to new ...

A new study in the journal Nature says most sea level rise research may have underestimated coastal water heights by an ...

Researchers found that a majority of studies on coastal sea levels underestimated how high water levels are, and hundreds of millions of people are closer to peril than previously thought.

Sea levels across the world are already “much higher” than most scientific assessments have assumed, according to new research, making coasts even more vulnerable to rising oceans as a result of ...

New research suggests global sea levels have been significantly underestimated due to limitations in widely used scientific models. The findings could reshape projections about how climate change will ...

Sea levels around the world have been underestimated due to inaccurate modeling, with research suggesting ocean levels are far higher than previously understood. The latest finding ...

Most coastal risk assessments have underestimated current sea levels, meaning tens of millions of people face losing their homes to rising waters earlier than expected ...

A study published in Nature on March 4, 2026, found that more than 99% of coastal hazard assessments conducted over the past 16 years used flawed sea-level data, meaning actual ocean levels are ...

An analysis of coastal impact assessments revealed that the majority are not based on direct sea-level and land-elevation ...